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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
No Wonder the $700 Billion Bailout 'Deal' Failed
This whole charade is nothing but misdirection with the results being unpredictable, and probably just as bad if not worse then the course we are on now.
If the credit markets are seizing, which credit markets. Short term financing (30-90 days)? Intermediate term (3-6 years), or long term?
If you don't have the data as to what is wrong, then how in the world are you to craft an appropriate solution? Washington has a huge "Credibility Gap" with the public and they are not helping matters here. The perception (right or wrong) is throw money at Wall Street.
In my experience, throwing money at a problem very rarely solves the problem.
The Hedge Fund of America, LP
It's Time for the Govt. to Spell Out the Risks of Not Rescuing Financial Markets
Credibility is the center of the problem and the whole administration Crew seems to have a distinct lack of credibility. This administration has already added 5 trillion to our debt. It is running a war, and buying votes with the taxpayer the credit card. None of the 5 trillion has been invested in adding or upgrading infastructure to grow our economy. The 700 billion will do nothing to making the role of wall street more effective.
I hope Congress listens to the voter rather then the donors and wait till after the election before taking up the supposed crisis.
$800 Billion for RTC 2.0 - Then What?
I agree with the above, the financial markets have to reach bedrock. If the market cannot price the product, why do people think the treasury will do a better job?
Are Short Sellers Really to Blame?
Making Sense of the Brokerage Bust
A Resolution Trust Corp. 'Solution'?
Why not just change the mark to market to pure cash accounting.
Short Selling: The Free Speech of Wall Street
So quit complaining about the SEC actually following the rules. And as for free speech, ask the poor protestors at the Democratic and Republican conventions if they got free speech or a police baton. (just to make a point). We have restrictions on rights just like their are restictions on trading.
So ask yourselfs these questions?
So how many naked shorts are there?
Can the person who shorted the stock cover if the trade goes wrong?
How much credit has been provided by shorting and what is the risk to the market?
The Gains from Preventing a Great Depression
Down here in Texas we have deregulated Electicity Markets to the highest prices in the nation. Another free market promise that failed to deliver.
Give me practical people who understand the trade offs between free markets, quasi regulated monopoly, and government controlled monopoly. Each market has its place in delivering goods and services to the public.
The Nationalization of AIG
It is time for the voter to take government back from the corporation.
Are Speculators Really That Bad for Commodities Markets?
Yes, their purpose is to provide liquidity. This allows prices to reflect longer term supply and demand imbalances and for lots of suppliers to adjust their production to the longer term pricing or for consumers to look for alternative materials or adjust their pricing of product.
Is there a role for regulation?
Yes, the problem is how to keep the market in a reasonable balance between suppliers and consumers of commodities. The supply side is “Cornering the Market” like the Hunts did with silver. In this case the enough of the supply of silver was controlled by the Hunts so they could set futures prices. The second is due to “herd mentality” of speculators. Here due to, loose/fast money, speculators start chasing a commodity price irregardless of the underlying demand of the price. The regulator, like an umpire, needs to be in place to make sure neither side is favored in the futures market and that the supplier or consumer does not have an overwhelming advantage.
Now supposedly the CFTC is supposed to be the umpire of the game. The problem is they are in the spectators box saying regulation is the responsibility of the “Great and all Powerful Invisible Hand”.
Yes, massive excesses will correct. But when this has happened in history the economic dislocation is incredible. Have the regulators learned nothing from history? Regulation is supposed to dampen excesses before the “Invisible Hand” corrects catastrophically.
Personally give me practical leadership over ideological leadership any day. I have enough drama in my life without our leaders dumping more on me.
The Fannie/Freddie Bailout: Consequences to the U.S. Taxpayer
Laissez-faire policies screwed us in the 1920's, in the savings and loan debacle of 1985 and now for the first economic screwup of th 22d century. Regulation is setting the rules that economic players must adhere to. Checks and balances in our society keep it from going off track. Lately both Governmental and Economic Checks and Balances have been eliminated by the "True Believers" leaving the practical practitioners twisting in the wind.
So how do you like the new Casino called Wall Street. You cannot trust what anyone says anymore.
The Problem with Hedge Funds
Same thing for commodities, is it supposed to minimize risk or be a crap shoot.
So I will start listening when Wall Street Leaders Step Up and do whats right.
On Being Rich
So when you are looking at who you are going to elect this fall, look to who wants to tackle the real problem of tacking a limited resource of Tax revenues and spending it on programs that work by investing in Americas future.
The last eight years have been all about ideaology. It is time to move to the practical. No one, party, has all the answers. What is the path for our country in the 22 century? It is time the voters, both the haves and the have nots be represented in Washington.
So what does being American mean to you?